irritated - Story 78649 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, they're selling us?" Linda’s voice was flat, devoid of emotion, and even she could hear the strain in it. The meeting room felt claustrophobic. The air was thick with the unspoken tension. She felt her hands clench into fists.

She'd spent years building this company, practically breathing it in and out. Now, a buyer was going to change everything. She imagined all the meetings, the restructuring, the layoffs. She took a deep breath, and then another, trying to steady herself.

Emotion: irritated

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.86 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion irritated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 irritated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the irritated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the irritated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.370
`S`	0.282
`P`	0.264
`😠`	0.248
`aggravated`	0.233

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.300
`joyful`	-0.211
`joyous`	-0.207
`खोले`	-0.206
`newfound`	-0.205